Archives for the ‘Focus’ Category

An Unbalanced Scorecard

By Clare Dunkley • Dec 30th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Yemen is working urgently to ween itself off of the country’s dwindling oil output. But security, political and bureaucratic hurdles are getting in the way.



Bridging the Gulf

By admin • Dec 23rd, 2008 • Category: Focus

Saudi Arabia must redraw its foreign policy to manage the region’s new geopolitical realities – and it faces significant hurdles along the way.



Pirates’ Eyl

By Ed Blanche • Dec 18th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Gangs of seaborne bandits are plaguing a key international shipping route, but a showdown with the world’s navies looms.



Talk to the Boss

By admin • Dec 14th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Middle East consultant Reza Zia-Ebrahimi argues that relations with Iran need to focus on the right person – and it isn’t President Ahmadinejad.



Five Myths on Iran

By Reza Zia-Ebrahimi • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: Focus

A lack of understanding has created dangerous misconceptions
about the country’s attention-grabbing maneuvers.



Arming Arabia

By Ian Munroe • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Focus

As the Middle East’s political landscape sways, GCC states are stockpiling high-tech weapons to protect themselves in uncertain times.



Here We Go Again

By afaq • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Price riots in Egypt are forcing the government to rethink the country’s
subsidy regime. But is it just tinkering, or something more?



A continent all its own

By admin • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Ignore the saber-rattling and nukes fears that dominate the headlines. Iran surprises and delights all who visit it.



Doha calling

By admin • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Qatar’s staging of the Asian Games was just the start of the country’s race to best its equally ambitious neighbors.



Raiders of the lost art

By admin • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Iraq’s cultural catastrophe continues, with highly organized gangs still plundering archaeological treasures five years after the US invasion.